Biography
Vitalė Klevečkaitė was born in 1980 in Kaunas, Lithuania. From a young age, she pursued the arts—drawing, painting, and drama—before formalizing her musical studies at Kaunas J. Gruodis Conservatory and later at the Edvard Grieg Academy in Bergen, Norway. She performed in symphonic and wind orchestras across Norway and earned recognition as a laureate of the Lithuanian National J. Pakalnis Wind Instrument Competition. Since 2005, Vitalė has explored visual arts, holding solo exhibitions such as Playing With The Colours: Hieroglyphs in Norway, while also engaging in translation, teaching, and creative education. Her background spans philosophy, literature, music, and painting, reflecting a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to art. Vitalė holds qualification a management diploma, and she continues to explore interests in mythology, anthropology, and parapsychology. She speaks Lithuanian (native), Norwegian (fluent), English and Russian (very good), Swedish (good), and basic German and Danish.
Exhibition " Playing With The Colours: Hieroglyphs" ( 4-th of September 2008)
In this Vitalės Klevečkaitės debut exhibition, works emerged where light and shadow converse quietly, yet profoundly.
“Playing With The Colours: Hieroglyphs” is not only a debut show but also an invitation to a visual meditation, where color becomes language, and signs pulse between knowledge and mystery.
Here, minimalist intellectual expressionism, rooted in the ideas of Vitalism, speaks with the voices of ancient civilizations: the light of Egyptian sands, the depth of Babylonian clay, the discoveries of Chinese green and blue. Each color functions like a system of calculation, a written symbol, a mathematical formula known to our ancestors.
Echoes of Sappho’s lyricism and Arabic hieroglyphic inscriptions do more than reference history—they remind us that what we cannot read always appears to us as hieroglyphs, or perhaps as a secret waiting for its discoverer.
